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Cattle producers in Kansas recently saw temperatures dip below 0 degrees, which called for a little extra care and attention for their livestock.
Provide cattle with adequate feed and protection from winter weather extremes.
Records show that the U.S. government paid more than $200,000 to help a Michigan Upper Peninsula farmer protect his cattle from wolves.
How much can I afford to pay for a bred female to restock after the drought?
A relief fund for western South Dakota ranchers who lost tens of thousands of cattle in an early October blizzard has collected $3 million, three times as much as expected, an organizer said Friday.
A southeast Kansas farmer whose video parody “What Does the Farmer Say” went viral last month has a new hit with his take on a Miley Cyrus song that features twerking cows.
With the ever-growing databases and improved techniques and computer applications to access the data, reviewing records of old bulls to access the current genetics within the herd aids in understanding the herd.
The Iowa Beef Center in partnership with the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association is offering the series “Heifer Development 2: Maintaining Your Investment” to specifically focus on management practices to keep young cows in the herd to improve longterm profitability.
The popular Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference has provided timely, accurate and important information to the state’s beef cattle industry for more than 40 years.
The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association plans to ask the 2015 Legislature to double the $1-per-head checkoff that ranchers pay when they sell cattle.
The local community and auctioneers from across the country stepped up to aid a family during their time of need at a recent cattle auction.
Open cows in the herd have a negative impact on profit as they are consuming expensive inputs without contributing back to the operation, but they are worth quite a bit of money, too.
Relief efforts have been setup for both North and South Dakota to aid ranchers in need after the brutal October blizzard.
Ranchers in South Dakota are still waiting to see if they will receive any federal aid after losing cattle in an October blizzard.
There are herds of cattle on a pair of remote Alaska islands that have survived for decades despite any number of threats to their existence.
Under the “Fresh From Florida” marketing campaign offered by the state’s agriculture officials to stores and consumers, people are encouraged to buy things that are grown and raised in the Sunshine State, but beef isn’t one of those products, yet.
A Nevada judge ordered a 21-year-old Elko man to serve three years’ probation and pay $1,450 restitution for killing and butchering a rancher’s cow, but not before she lectured him about the cruelty of the senseless crime.
Knowing when to cull open or problem cows can help bring in some additional profit.
The Indiana Beef Cattle Association and Purdue Extension will host 10 meetings around the state in December and January to give cattle producers the latest industry information.
High daily temperatures at 20 and 30 degrees confirm the arrival of winter. A week or more of cold temperatures, particularly below freezing, can take a toll on the cow herd.
Milk is clearly a good thing in the beef cowherd. Heavier milking cows produce heavier calves. But at what cost?
The feed cost environment for 2013-2014 is dramatically different compared to last year.
More than 450 bred cattle and 150 heifer calves have been donated to South Dakota ranchers who lost livestock in the rare blizzard, the Rapid Journal reports. The cows have come from at least 10 states and 300 donors.
Feed and forage represents your largest annual production costs, and they provide the greatest opportunity for you to make significant changes in a short period of time.
There are a lot of concerns and mixed messages about hormones in beef. There are a few things to keep in mind the next time you hear that beef contains too many hormones.
Heading into the winter months, cattle producers should give careful attention to adequate nutrition of beef cattle.
Montana ranchers have donated 45 head of cattle for breeding stock to their South Dakota counterparts who lost thousands of cattle in a freak blizzard in October.
If there are any lessons that can be learned from the past few years of sparse rainfall it’s that recovering from drought requires proper management.
Life Technologies hosts event with state veterinarians to explore finding common ground on regulation harmonization and diagnostic testing standardization of trichomoniasis.
Johnson County Associate Circuit Judge Garrett R. Crouch II found Republican Rep. Warren Love, of Osceola, guilty of misdemeanor animal abuse last month in St. Clair County, but he set that judgment aside Monday.